Reports accredited to the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, police authorities and the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, have it that 15 people dead and 41 others injured in the multiple blasts in Abuja Friday night bomb blast suspected to be masterminded by the dread sect, boko haram
It was learnt that the remains of those killed have been deposited in various hospitals across the city.
The injured were rushed to Kuje General Hospital, National Hospital and Nyanya General Hospital.
A statement by the agency’s spokesperson, Sani Datti, in the early hours of Saturday in Abuja said, “Following a coordinated rescue operation at scene of multiple explosions in both Nyaya and Kuje, which are satellite towns of Federal Capital Territory Abuja, so far fifteen (15) persons lost their lives and forty one (41) injured were evacuated to Nyanya, Asokoro General hospitals and National Hospital Abuja.
“In Nyaya Two (2) deaths were recorded while 21 injured. Kuje thirteen (13) person lost their lives and 20 injured.
The casualty figures given, however, is at variance with eye-witness account from the scene of the attack. A relative of an dead person, Ibrahim told our reporter earlier today that at least 20 people died in Kuje market alone while over 40 people were injured.
Details later.
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